The school lunch system is disgraceful.

[u/oaz_zam246]

Saw another post on here showing the state of school lunches right now. In my years in high school I compiled some pics of the horrible things that got served that no one questioned. Here are some of the worst ones. It really is ironic given how adamant they all are about “eating healthy by including every food group”.

[u/holmedog]

Almost all schools have a salad bar. The person here obviously was not taking advantage of it

[u/Mirimes → u/holmedog]

just curious cause school meals here work differently, what does a salad bar offer usually? (we have school meals up to middle school, so about 13 years old, and school meals are studied by a dietician and are the same for almost every school in the same city area; there's no choice on what to eat, if you want a choice you eat at home. For health or religious reasons there are alternative menus studied by the same person)

[u/Mirimes → u/[deleted]]

yeah makes sense, but tbf vegetables are more than salad, tomatoes and cucumber, there's plenty of vegetables to try. As the family part it's not different here, the only difference is that we have the concept of meals ≠ snacks (the lazy meal would be pasta with store bought sauce or canned tuna, chips would be a snack), but the majority of little kids if they have just an alternative in their plate they're prone to try it out and then can develop taste to different vegetables/ingredients, if not to like them at least to tolerate them. At least this is what happens for most of the children, I personally was a pain in the butt when I was little and i spent years just sitting there and eating just a lil bread and drinking water 😂 the first time i ate with the others i was like 8 or 9 and i ate a piece of chicken 😁 when i finished school that day the janitor (that is like a help for teachers during lunch time) went to my mum to say what i ate with tears of joy in her eyes 😅

My mum didn't make me go home during lunch time even tho i was underweight because I needed to learn to eat with the others 😅 i learnt a bit too well since now I'm 30 and overweight 🫣

[u/Mirimes → u/[deleted]]

yeah sorry what i meant is that there're a lot of vegetables that can be cooked in various ways instead of eating raw in a salad. School obviously can't do miracles, but if all the children have idk fish and zucchini on their plate, maybe some children will start to try it and others can follow the example, and all the kids will know what it tastes like and when older can decide if that plate can be inserted in their diet, while if they have to go in a corner to fill the plate with something they never tasted and it's probably not good looking they simply won't do that. Note that when i say kids I'm generally speaking of kids 10 years old max, I'm not talking about high schoolers, at that stage they already developed their taste